A Southern California couple whose bodies were found under their neighbor’s home after being reported missing died from “blunt force trauma to the head,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said. Less than a week later, police were tipped off that their neighbor, Michael Royce Sparks, 62, in Olive Dell Ranch had admitted killing the couple to a family member …
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RIO DELL, Calif. — Outside the Dollar General, the store manager ticked off the items she had to share with families trying to jumpstart their lives after an earthquake jolted them from their beds and cut off the town’s water and power. Just days before Christmas in Rio Dell, the former lumber town grappled with the aftermath of early Tuesday’s …
One day after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked Humboldt County, power was restored to tens of thousands of residents as authorities continued to survey the damage in coastal Northern California. By Wednesday night, crews restored service to “essentially all” of the 71,000 customers who had lost electricity because of the quake, said Megan McFarland, spokesperson for Pacific Gas & Electric …
